Jonathan Bennett looks sexy with his hair pushed back. Tell him—he's heard it a few times before. (His secret weapon? Bumble and Bumble Sumotech. Yes, we're currently hashing out plans for the campaign.) The 34-year-old actor and TV personality, who made his fame as Mean Girls dreamboat Aaron Samuels and won over Dancing With the Stars viewers with his killer jive last season (more on being every wedding's favorite guest below), has returned to the small screen as the host of Food Network's Cake Wars, now in its first season. Bennett was born to be a host, in all senses of the word—as in he agreed to literally host the set of his upcoming movie, Modern Love, in his Los Angeles home. "I have to stay upstairs," he explains, laughing, as the crew of 100 wanders about his ground floor of his Los Angeles home. "I did not realize what I was agreeing to." So, from his quarters, he told us all about fonuts, shooting with David LaChapelle, and still dreaming about Rachel McAdams.

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Harper's BAZAAR: Are you a lifelong cake buff?

Jonathan Bennett: I know nothing about cake. The only thing I know is that it is delicious. And when I got asked to do this show I was so excited because I am a huge sweets person. I love cupcakes; I love cakes; I love anything desserts. So to come on this show and watch these amazing, talented chefs create these out-of-these world cakes like you have never seen before—I was thrilled. Who doesn't love cake?

JB: Fonuts. I am addicted to them ever since I tried them. They are donuts that are baked instead of fried. For my birthday, instead of cakes I did fonuts from Waylynn Lucas, owned by one of our judges on Cake Wars. Have you had one?

HB: I've had both a fonut and a cronut.

JB: I have had a fonut, a cronut, and a ronut. And another favorite is the vanilla vanilla cake from Magnolia Bakery. That is probably my hands-down, all-time favorite cake.

HB: I am so hungry. It's been over a decade since Mean Girls. Do you still think about that movie as much as I do?

JB: What's weird is that I had a dream about Rachel McAdams last night. It was her when she was dressed up in her fat suit.

HB: What Mean Girls reference do you get most often?

JB: I don't know what it is like to have a day go by and not have someone yell a Mean Girls reference on the street. It has been 11 years, and it would be weird. Of course, the most common is "Your hair looks sexy pushed back."

HB: Well, do you wear it pushed back?

JB: It sure is pushed back.

HB: What product do you push it back with?

JB: Bumble and Bumble Sumotech.

HB: You could do a whole campaign around that line.

JB: Oh my god, you could. I've got to talk to my publicist. I think that is a really good idea.

HB: I want a cut, okay?

JB: I am emailing my publicist Craig right now.

HB: Which high school clique were you in?

JB: I was the guy orchestrating the homecoming or the prom or the pep rally that weekend. So while everyone was eating lunch at their tables, I was in the principal's office making copies. I was president of every club, so I was friends with everybody. I was the odd ball.

HB: What made you decide to compete on Dancing with the Stars?

JB: My parents passed away last year, and one of my dad's favorite shows to watch while he was sick in the hospital was Dancing with the Stars. So when he passed away, I got really excited to do the show because it was homage to my dad and my mom, who both were obsessed. After losing both my parents in one year I was in a huge rut, and I wanted to do the show to wake myself up. It made me feel alive again.

HB: What a great commemoration. Do you go show off your skills at the club now?

JB: Okay, let me tell you this: I go to weddings and tear it up. If you have never seen me dance with your Aunt Barb before, you are in for a surprise. Now everyone wants to take me to weddings as their date, and I just come in and I am the VIP.

HB: In 2008 you did something a little different—you modeled for a political ad campaign shot by David LaChapelle. That was an interesting one, huh?

JB: Yeah, Christina Aguilera and I shot an ad to get kids to vote, where they put bolts in my mouth. It read, "Only you can silence yourself." The hard part was I couldn't talk too much because the entire time my mouth was sealed shut in a prosthetic with bolts through it.

HB: Where are you calling from?

JB: I am sitting at my desk—which is my bed—in lovely Hollywood, California, because I have to stay upstairs because we are shooting a movie in my house.

HB: What movie are you shooting in your house?

JB: It's called Modern Love,with Anthony Rapp and Kate Walsh and me, about two guys who are engaged and their families are coming into town for the wedding and then hilarity ensues. What I like about it is that it's not a story about a gay wedding; it's just a story about a wedding.

HB: I didn't realize that was taking place in your house!

JB: I didn't either. I went and saw where the location was, and I was like, "Oh man, I don't think we can shoot here. I don't think it is going to make the movie look good." They needed a house that's modern, and I was like, "Well, you can probably shoot at my house." I did not realize what I was agreeing to. Cut to 100 crew people in my house every day at 6am. But it's super interesting. You get up earlier than you want to.